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LIFE. 



a pnrin. 



D. PARISH 'bARHYDT. 




NEW YORK: 
Wm. HOLDRIDGE, 140 FULTON STREET, 



1851. 



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Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1851, by 

D. P. BARHYDT, 

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Southern District of 
New York. 



R. Craighead, Printer and Stcreotyper, 
112 Fulton Street, New York. 



ST}) J l^onorablf 

AAPtON HACKLEY, 

THE FINE QUALITIES OF WHOSE INTELLECT ARE 

EMBELLISHED BY THE GENEROUS QUALITIES 

OF HIS HEART, THIS POEM IS 

INSCRIBED WITH THE 

AFFECTIONATE ESTEEM 

OF THE 



LIFE. 



Moments there are, when, as the lightning's 
flash 
Illumes too brightly for the dazzled eye 
A cloud-enwrapt and thunder-shaken earth, 
The flash of Inspiration suddenly 
Irradiates the unexpectant mind 
With overpowering brilliancy. A light 
Illumes eternity ; whose secrets bared — ■ 
In one electric moment is conceived 
Ideal excellence ; is opened all 
The rich aesthetic mine ; and felt the vast 
Inspiring comprehension of the Might 
Rules spirit worlds. The mental vision seems 
To pierce undreamed-of depths ; light calls to 

light ; 
Immortal answers to the Infinite ! 
'Tis then the fountain is unsealed ; and thence 
Upbursts a gush of spiritual thought 
Our feeble words are impotent to paint, 
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6 LIFE. 

Should they essay, when there the thirsty soul 
Returns to drink of Inspiration's flow, 
'Twill find no slaking flavor of the deep. 
Life-ebullition stirred its far-off" depths. 
The gifts of language had but faintly traced, 
In faded image scarce discernible, 
The mysteries a lifted spirit read 
Though faint, e'en this within the kindred soul 
Wakes thoughts reflecting inspiration's glow 
To stir its nature as with magic power. 

Oft the caged bird with quick, impatient wing 
Beats hard the prison bars, its eager eye 
By new caught glimpse of brighter elements 
Fixed on its proper home. Convulsively 
At times the yearning spirit yields itself 
To momentary action, like the flight 
To come throughout Eternity's wide range. 
A view prolonged beyond that transient glimpse 
Were uncongenial with its earthly sphere. 
Nor sympathetic with the grosser acts 
Called forth by challenge of the passions hold 
Divided sway within the mortal bonds. 



BOOK THE FIRST. 



Kature. 

Thy valley, Alia, spreads afar, as some 

Titanic garden where the skies aye smile 

Their tribute, sunny 'mid their showery tears. 

Thy streamlets wind throughout the varying vale. 

And verdant slopes, by groves of laurel graced. 

Descend with all the elegance of ease ( 

Toward the amber of their polished flow. 

The flying hills from flying hills with clouds 

Retreat afar, till distance vanishes 

In dreamy haze, where curves o'erlapping curves, 

Half veiled in mystery, the quality 

Divine, are half in beauty. Nature's own. 

Exposed for pure enchantment of the soul. 

The brown and golden fields, with the deep green ' 

Of forest groves, in the rich sunlight catch 

The shadows of a hundred clouds, to charm 

As with a laughing Hebe's endless grace. 

The mist's deep azure on the distant chain 

Of belting mountains zones her waist with blue. i 

Thy mountain brooklets, pebbled, talk and sing 



8 LIFE. 

With the rich music of her loving voice ; 

And thy clear lakelets glow and swim with all 

The liquid lustre of her bright blue eye. 

Alluring Alia ! type of Tempean vales ! 

The heart describes thee, while the hand but fails. 

'Twas night. Within the mountains, deeply set, 
A lakelet lay. They bore it proudly, like 
A jewel worn on Aphrodite's breast. 
Where a great tree, a broad-leaved sycamore 
Of hoary trunk, cast prone to earth, embraced 
Our common mother with its filial arms, 
I lay upon the bank. The balmy air, 
Fraught full of sights and sounds, did wrap me 

round. 
Then was my mortal frame, full, tensive with 
Emotion, lift by the swoln force and power 
Of soul that throbbed so big within ; until 
It seemed that soul must 'scape the hold. And 

thus 
It was I scarce knew where I lay. It was 
Not sleep ; and yet it seemed a dream. Then I 
Did call on God to show himself to me, 
That I might know and love him, — for a spell 
Was strong upon me. Mortal as I was. 
The sight of God were death. Impossible ! 
Yet God was everywhere ; and would not hide 
All quality of Him from my bold quest, — 
Devoutful prayer ; for He is solely good. 



LIFE. 9 

'Twas then the glance of His uplighting eye 
Shot throughout space. Darkness had ceased to 

be! 
And in the sunbeam of His look did float 
The motes, to me visible in starry worlds 
On worlds, strewn thick as dust in air. These 

worlds 
To me and motes to him. Oh ! they were more 
Than worlds to me ! In that they were but motes 
To Him, e'en motes to Him ; were aught to Him, 
Of Him, to me they were soul-like, and wore 
The face of life, held immortality ! 
Dear friends that link us with the fountain-head ! 
Strange stars ! I never have a thought of God 
But it doth seem a star ; nor ever see 
A star but it doth seem a thought of God. 
Bright mediums of purest sympathy, 
Entuning dormant hopes to voiceful prayer, 
I coin your brightness into gems of price 
Worth more to me than theirs to them who make 
Barbaric boasting of abundant wealth. 
The holy Saha, who at first did teach 
The patriarchal wisdom of the plains. 
The pure and reverential faith Sabean : — 
All active with a spiritual life, 
The precious ministers between the One 
Unnamed and awe-revered God, and they 
His undegenerate worshippers. Great stars ! 
A mighty priesthood, robed in lustrous light. 



10 LIFE. 

They sweep along the blue enamelled aisles 
Of the cathedral heavens, domed by the 
Universe, hymning vespers till the morn 
When matins change the song : as in the first 
Chaldean's time, in solemn converse, still 
The intercessors with the Lofty One. 
The faithful sentinels outposted far 
To guard the citadel of God. Bright stars ! 
They pierce me with their pure electric light. 
And fill my being ; striking into life 
Hope, faith, and love — the triune All, that spring 
From beauty, and return to dwell therein. 

O Night ! that sweepest on with starry train. 
Majestic consort of imperial Day. 
O beautiful ! O Night ! that halving time 
Glideth by, the shadow of imperial Day. 
Oh ! lovely is the Night ! that ligh.teth up 
The universe with softer lustre. Kind, 
Oh ! kindly is the night ! that softeneth, 
That shadeth for our view infinity ; 
That shadeth for the weakness of our sight. 
That pitieth the weakness of our sight. 
O beautiful ! Night ! that slumbereth, 
That sleepeth, dreaming, on the lap of God. 
O beautiful ! O Night ! that bringeth out 
The starry homes, that weareth heaven on 
Thy face, that holdeth heaven in the smile 
That flitteth, floateth in thy dream, along 



LIFE. 11 

The smiling of thy dream. O beautiful, 
Beloved ! O Night ! • 

Great trees stood up around me ; but no gro%'e 
Of Asphodel was there admitting griefs 
And ills of life ; the spirit that upheld 
Dominion of wrapt sense knew naught but love 
And joy. The trunks in many attitudes 
Described strange forms, varied and beautiful 
As grace ; abroad their thousand arms were thrown. 
Whence myriads of slender twigs outspread 
In graceful ease. Depending thence those leve. 
Loved leaves for ever pulsing with the breath 
They breathe unceasingly. Flecked was the sky 
With varying tracery infinite ; 
Diverse as every form of leaf and twig. 
With change of ceaseless motion multiplied. 
Umbrating light with shadows numberless 
As sands that bed the sea, these scattered o'er 
A sky at hand forms limned in beauty, like 
A starry host brought down to us — a host 
Breathfull and tremulous with living joy. 
O trembling leaves of changeful beauty ! I 
Could watch ye through the courses run by sun 
And moon and stars, in all their several lights, 
Forever painting on the concave blue. 
Whether commingling verdant light with gold 
In hues beyond imagination's art ; 
Whether with glint of sunlight, or. the wan 



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Sweet shimmer shed by moon and stars, ye wrap 
Yourselves in^eauty as a robe ! O wood I 
O forest well beloved, with matchless forms 
Of ever varied beauty ! ye trees, 
Sapfull of life, and leaved full of breath ! 
Within your bosky dells, where, golden green. 
The light peeps in and paints the grassy floor 
A carpet arabesque, 'tis heaven to lie 
And feel your spirit twining with mine own. 
And hear it speaking through your leafy tongues. 

foliated beauties ! ye are all 

My brothers and my sisters, beings dear ! 
Aye loving the communion held by us, 

1 dwell with ye in heart for evermore ! 
With any Hamadryad nymph, I still 
Would every senseless Perebios threat. 
Who without spur of rank necessity 
Would lay alow a noble trunk, dear trees, 
Should labor profitless for evermore. 

The moon above the rocky pyramids 
Whose strength majestic crowned the curving 

sides 
Of mountains forest-iringed, glowed lustrously. 
The lakelet, polished, lay one half within 
The mountain's shadow ebony, and half 
Without was steel. Ne'er saw I mirror like 
It. Soon a rippling moved along its face, 
And every tiny crest that curled was lit 



LIFE. 13 

By Luna's beams. It smiled on me like heaven ! 
I watched ! Each curling ripple that arose 
Above the perfect smoothness worn of late, 
Received a glow-worm's form and light ; and as 
I watched, they all came creeping on toward ; 
Though never they advanced ; for they but rose 
And fell, as infant riplets that may smile 
Ere yet they gather strength to creep ; and back 
From their smooth ebon cradle give the smiles 
Of mother Moon maternal bending o'er 
Them. 

Mother ! is thy spirit on the air, 
Or on»the ether of a purer flood 
Now floating in the silver radiance 
Illumes my spirit with celestial light ? 
The light is all thine own ! As in the days 
Of helpless innocence, and after years 
Of growing hopes, it was thy love that walked 
With me a holy presence, and my heart 
Nestled in thine, so now before thy robes 
Of radiant white, beneath thy raven locks 
Of waving grace, kneeling with clasped hands 
Within the peaceful light of thy calm smile. 
Serenely beautiful with light divine, 
My clinging spirit prays: O Mother, dear 
And guardian angel in thy holy walk 
Through earthly and celestial worlds, oh! leave 
Him not, but evermore as now enfold 
Thy purer presence round about thy child ! 
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Blest moon ! before whose face a lambent flame 
Was playing as a flame of glory, bright 
And pure ; glowing a light as of a soul 
Visible. Round her face another light 
Concentric held inclosed the soul, and shone 
The sapphire of the highest heaven supreme ; 
Such as may dome the seventh where dwells the 

light 
Effulgent veiling as a fleecy cloud — 
So dull were it beside that unseen face — 
The seventy times seventy, ay more. 
The infinitely brighter light of God's 
Annihilating face ! Moon, I love thee ! 
bright embalmer of the thoughts of bards 
And all bard-loving ! — ages handing down 
To ages — all embalming in the pure 
And sacred quality of beauty ; bright 
Lustrating type of Nature's harmony ! 
Thou, too, comest at my call. Then I did cry 
From out the depths, all fathomless, within 
My soul : — this, this is Beauty, and of Thee ! 
In Thee at first, and thence, by thy sole power 
Creative forth from Thee, to be recalled 
On thy unerring day ; and all through this 
Thy quality of Beauty rapt in me : 
And now am I become with Thee and it 
One All and all in One. Now take me, God ! — 
Translate from out the stagnate bonds of this 
Harsh ligature that binds my soul in cere 



LIFE. 15 



Of mortal mould — lay me upon some marge 
Like this in any starry world, and let 
Me fold Thy Beauty round me as a rapt 
Thought that shall dwell unchangingly 
On these and Thee ! 

Oh ! Beauty is a life, 
A spirit dwelling all abroad, within. 
Without ; a fair familiar that may fly. 
May fetch and carry, penetrate the heart 
And centre of the central orb of all 
To mine the richest gems whose lustre glows 
Dazzling to sense and gladding heart of love ; 
May skim the surface of remotest life. 
And gild the blackest with effulgence all 
Divine : sheer through all space on tireless wings 
It flies and gives a quality, where else 
'Twere void : familiar faithful ! that may tell 
In tongue its own whate'er this soul most craves, 
Most needs to know, its home is everywhere. 
Yet at my call it shall obedient 
Forever minister to me — ay, here 
And there eternally ! 

And Love shall give 
A tongue wherewith some may translate, as fire 
Shall light the darkness of a brooding air. 
The swelling Thought and crushing feeling of 
The universe — pulsations of the heart 



16 LIFE. 

Of God, creator, and creation's soul ! 
Giving supernal power to beat, as sledge 
And anvil thunder on the burning bar. 
The glowing human heart to better form. 
Though the big bar's unmalleate when cold. 
Heated by Love, the iron heart will mould. 

Hail Love and Beauty — Cupid, Psyche ! Soul 
Of Love and all-pervading Beauty ! call 
Divine expression from your worshippers ! 
Beyond the classic art that deftly wove 
The mythic fiction wedding godlike Love 
To spiritual Beauty, thence become 
Immortal ; when the Hours with roses hung 
High heaven ; the Graces throwing perfumes 

round ; 
And to the music of Apollo's lyre. 
While Venus danced, the Arcadian God attuned 
His reeds, and all the Muses chorussed joy. 

Oh ! I will revel in thy beauty, lay 
My head upon thy bosom. Earth, and live 
In dalliance with thee, Egeria ! 
Nay, I will kneel before thy vestal shrine, 
And wear thy name upon my reverent lips 
For the divinity that guides my steps 
To contemplation of the Sovereign Cause. 
O virgin mother of the common all. 
What sin can do will ne'er pollute thee. Earth ! 



II: 



LIFE. 17 



Nor to the eye alone, — came music for the ear. 
The softer zephyrs and the fresh'ning breeze 
Were touching myriads of foliate lyres ; 
And lulling notes of melodies were heard 
In peaceful recognition of the tones 
Nature harmoniously hymns. They come, 
Spelling the spirit with a magic sweet 
With wish for evermore continuance. 
In lightest rustlings tremulously breathed 
At hand by the scarce moving leaflets — those 
That fairly in all forms of tracery 
Paint the near sky. Hearken, rapt ear ! From far 
Tree tops that fringe the mountain's crest, along 
The hollow of the greeny vale, are borne 
The swelling tones a mighty forest breathes 
To heaven and poureth surging over earth. 
Majestic murmurings to mournful man 
A higher Power's sympathy impart ; 
And these do voice our swoln emotions with 
Such full sublimity of sound as fills 
The roused immortal worship-full of praise. 
Ye cloud-rapt forest lords ! Oh ! I would ride 
Upon your billowy tops, mingling my voice 
With the near surge and swell of your loud 
cadence. 

There was a quiet sound of summer eve, 
A sound of many sounds, heard often thus. 
From distant meadows borne toward this heart 
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And centre. There is a calm beatitude 

Of Nature in her dreamy scenes like this, 

A melancholy music in her voice, 

'Gendering the sadness of a deeper joy. 

An all-subduing power, with gentle touch. 

Doth make us feel and hear it, on the ear 

Of inner self tinkling in harmony. 

For as the living human face doth wear 

The sanction of a soul, perceptible 

In influence, though unperceived itself. 

So are the things of Nature visible, 

With influences circumfused that pierce 

The interspace, and reach us with a touch. 

As from a spirit of Great Nature's own. 

Oh ! never can this mind, this heart or soul 

Forget the lesson of an hour beside 

Thy speaking face, fair Nature ! Nor can I, 

Though sightless, earless, with the wavering gait 

Of a wan confidence approach the Works 

Divinely wrought surrounding. Ne'er will fade 

From memory's graven tablet all was there 

Revealed of placid beauties, a serene 

And even happiness that were in rare 

Perfection felt : of an aspiring sense 

(Or something subtler 'twas than sense for which 

Imperfect language hath no name) that rose 

Within me ; not as introduced then first. 

But lying dormant, and awakened there 

By angel messengers invisible. 



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Yet visible to that more subtle sense 

Just waked and teaching with a flow, as sweet 

And fitly genial as the milky food 

An infant takes, much knowledge of far worlds 

And higher orders of existences 

With fine impairless powers that I should share. — 

If not a knowledge, unpresuming, would 

I say a thought : and with it others came 

Of greatest Power, intensest Light ! that spread 

Wide flowing volume upon volume, rolled 

World beyond world, each brighter than the last, 

Interminably on. Presence Divine ! 

Seen, known, and felt to be unseen, unknown. 

The unpremeditated thought of such 

An hour, awakened by that subtler sense 

Or mantle of harmonious Nature worn 

A light concentric round the lustrous soul. 

At such a time assumed investiture 

Of volume, then familiarly put on 

In ample radiance, and seemed at once 

To grow a soul, if not inaptly such 

The word for what hath no expression save 

In the sublime communing of a vision. 

Not to the eye alone doth minister 
The fair Familiar, — Filling full the air 
And ear, from bird and beetle, cicala 
And tiny locust life came melodies, 
Trilling and chirping in excess of joy ; 



20 LIFE. 

Until it seemed that every leaf and blade 

Was tenanted for concert of sweet praise. 

With deepening night settling to sounder sleep 

Above the nestling of her gathered brood. 

The plaining pigeon from her covert called — 

A solitary cry ! 

And all the sharded tribes, as paladins 

In march, with rattling armor struck the air. 

From far and near came many melodies. 

Tones high and low, notes shrill and soft from life 

Whose instinct was to joy in beauty — praise ! 

Most holy power and purpose, wish and will ! 

And used beyond the practice men uphold : 

Used ever, and with every breath a joy, 

A praise, a prayer of love and faith, a voice 

All life created to Creator sends : 

From the invisible Intelligence, whose breath 

Sways the visible universe as wave 

The willows pendent in the viewless air. 

To God All good ! Oh ! life is everywhere, 

And death is naught ; while life is ever love ! 

What are the pomps and the puerilities. 
The powers and passions, sodden greatness dull, 
And bustling nothings ; the chasing hopes, and 

fears 
Fast flying ; what the low ambitions, high 
Desires, the crawling pride, and vanity 
Outsoaring clouds, outroaring wind, of earth 1 



LIFE. 21 

Oh ! what is all that we do gather up 
With one great sweep of thought and hold con- 
densed 
In one mean word — the World ! What are they 

all 
To this whose breath is one full hope, a faith, — 
To such most high communing with these things 
Of nature ; to the interchange of breath 
In the deep breathings of His works upheaved 
From their unsleeping spirit ; to the throb 
Of pulse oij|.pulse imparting most intense 
Vitality and rousing like within, 
Awakening power and deep serene delights, — 
To Nature's grandeur, aye the only great, 
Whose order only no confusion racks. 
Whose beauty only never wearies sense. 
Upon whose harmonies no discords clash, — 
To the still life commoving hushedly 
In silent melodies that fall upon 
The inner sense with spirit-stilling force. 
Winged from far mysteries, while the soothed soul 
Bows low, rejoicing in their influence, — 
To the full murmurings of the vast Soul 
That filleth and encompasseth moon, stars. 
Lake, trees, and insect life, and me, and God ! 
And is all Beauty, Love, Divine ! Is in 
All these, of Him, and maketh purified. 
Observant and absorbing me with Him 
One indivisible complete for aye. 



22 LIFE. 

Not seldom when the steady force of such 
Was on me, in the rapter mood that laid 
The spirit to a quiet rest within 
The shadow of great Nature's hills, that reach 
Alway to heaven ; and oft thereafter too 
In busy moments when her face hath swept 
Before me like the phases of a dream, 
A rising thought of the rude world, a sense 
That broke upon me of antagonism ; 
A feeling of a crush, a trampling rush 
Amid a dusty and breath-thickened gloom 
(Dim lighted lobby crowded with a rush 
For narrow doors to some theatric show), 
And a great roar of evil passions where 
The intermittent lull was only that 
Design of smoother artifice, not thence 
Unslacking in the hot pursuit of ends 
Deadly destructive to a neighboring self 
Hath sickened me, repugnant, to the soul ! 
Of more or less duration was the pain, 
Always endured until a quality, 
An element of somewhat in itself. 
That thought or sense ; in open nature read ; 
Or held in me — an atom of the whole 
Enlinking man and things of nature chained 
In one great scheme created — springing up 
A sense of Man as crowning work disposed 
And prominent to view, informed my soul 
Of ends and purposes to serve. And then 



LIFE. 23 

Upon the front of this sore-soothed heart 
Two words were burned — Labor and Love ! 

O ample Love ! O infinite ! eterne 
As human soul. Such taking purest food, 
With yearnings schooled to loftiest aims, that 

when 
Athirst the dew of constant Nature quaff — 
Fresh Castaly for ardent mind — most fit 
For love, absorb and yield degree with that 
Most noble height of God-ward aim attained. 
Kinds numerous hath Love as Nature's forms : 
It hath a home among the sunset clouds, 
In fancy taking all familiar shapes ; 
A smile, soul-lighted, in the birken sheen ; 
A music quavering on the aspen leaf ; 
A modest grace in lowly violets ; 
A voice that sighs among the lofty pines ; 
That breathes solemnity in beechen shades ; 
That moans in sadness through the leafless 

boughs ; 
Or flows harmonious with the moving stream ; 
A throng of memories hath Love that whirl 
With withered leaves in autumn's eddying blasts ; 
Phases for each emotion of the soul ; 
Each form of beauty decking universe. 1/ 

A soul's capacity for love augments 
With usage here — and so eternally. 
Without that happy phase of Charity 



24 LIFE. 

This mystery eludes our vigilance, 

Unhood us as we may. We think we love 

And 'tis ourselves alone that's dear to us. 

We love and know it not, though, wind-like, 

pulse 
And Will drive onward under secret power. 
Without to love, this life is living death, 
And joys do have no weight with us, but all 
Are faint as shadows of forgotten dreams. 
With that to love which loveth in return. 
The very bale and woe of life opprest 
Yields grateful comfort, as the balm leaf crushed 
Emits a fragrance held until e.xprest. 
With one to share enjoyment of the hour 
Devote to Nature's beauties, fairer all ; 
There cherished recollections are upheld 
In monumental trees that never cease 
Renewal ; hills that shadow day by day. 
Handed with Time, the images of Thought, 
The changeful features of the beating heart. 
Thought digs a gulf between its votaries 
And unreflective minds, but Love will throw 
A bridge, a scimeter's keen edge in width. 
Whereon the student Nature owns may pass — 
As favored prophet on Al Sirat's edge — 
For priestly union ministrant to men. 
Love is an ever active spirit, dwells 
Throughout a vasty sea of atoms, matter, all : 
And it doth sometimes billow, roll and lash 



LIFE. 25 

The universal whole, tempestuous. 

In swells that rock Eternity upon 

Its broad foundations of God's soul 

And being ; and again it whispereth. 

And, gliding smoothly forward, ripples come. 

Come plupping liquidly on mortal ears, 

Kissing the marge with childhood's pulpy lips. 

And lull the spirit softlier than doth 

The humming music of the tiny bird. 

Sweet lakelet ! let me lay my cheek to thiine^, 
And feel the kisses that entrance mine ears. 
Dear Alia ! often through the summer hours 
Are thy soft wavelets talking thus to me, — 
Two sweetest voices blending into one- — 
My Child's — my God's ! Father, I am thy child ! 
And I am father too ! My senses bathed 
In liquid murmurings, I lave my soul 
In thine. My Father, child and I, the links 
Triune of soul ! Thy symbol teaching Truth ! 

Our children are those better angels that 
Do lake a form and substa.nce visible. 
At all times visitants from God to men, 
And with as many saving lessons charged 
As swayed by tireless change of active grace. 

Comes a blue-eyed chubby face, 
At a tottling toddling pace. 
With a forehead white and bold, 
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26 LIFE. 

Waving locks of burnished gold. 
And a dimple jointed arm, 
Like a cushion, soft and warm ; 
Coming toddling, coming on. 
Little milky breathing one. 
Like the echo of a rill 
Rippling down a woodland hill. 
Sweetly breathes a slender voice — 
Zephyrs sighing for a choice. 
Sighing vainly to compete. 
Having nothing half so sweet — 
While is floating in the ear : — 
" Mother — home — father dear." 
Open ear and bending neck 
Carefully forbear to check 
Downy dimpled cushions clinging. 
Sweet imperfect accents ringing — 
Clinging yet, ringing yet, 
Wrapping round it, in it set. 
Till the heart now warm and swollen, 
All its secrets quickly stolen. 
All its treasures w'e can see 
Opened by that little key. — 
Key of arm clinging round. 
Key of so/tly ringing sound. 
Ringing there, floating yet ; 
Singing — " father — mother — pet." 

O the heart is full of music 

Where the children's voices dwell — 



LIFE. 27 

Voices heard in earnest gushings, 
Gushing truthful from a well. 

Visioned now a form and face 

Pass in beauty and in grace 

Green and graceful branches waving, 

Golden sunshine richly laving. — 

List ! the motion heard unseen, 

When its mossy sides between 

Softly glides a streamlet slow. 

Lending lulling murmurs low. — 

List ! a tone familiar, mild. 

Blending — " husband — home — our child." 

Yea, Love is more than spirit ; it is soul ; ' 

For it is God's own essence pure : and that 
It then did glide into my soul, and held 
Me with its power distent ; far spreading out 
My being till it touched all time and space. 
Creation and eternity, I rose — 
And knelt ; knelt lowly on a rock that lay 
Firm bedded in the marge. Then turned my fac& 
Towards the o'erarching face of heaven above. 
And dipping of the water with my hand, 
I thrice did east it upward, and did thrice 
Behold th' outspreading drops — lit with a blaze 
Of gem-light in the high moon's glance — ascend- 
In sacrificial fire of Heaven's own gift, — ■ 
My soul's oblation to the Beautiful ; 
My worship's sacrifice to God the Soul ! 



BOOK THE SECOND, 



And kneeling there, the world unrolled itself 
Before me as a scroll. And over all 
A light shone steadily. A light that pierced 
The heart of earthly things, as sunbeam through 
A dewdrop. Evil then and Truth I saw- 
In all. 

I put strange question to my soul : 
And ever those twin oracles, the stern 
Experience that has endured and lives 
Hopeful, and Love, both blending into truth. 
Spake prompt reply. And every question and 
Its answer did resolve into one loud. 
Strong cry for God. 

If such be, what is Fame? 
O tireless toiler up an endless steep ! 
And struggling striver in a world of strife ! 
The world is like unto a serpent ; once 
He hears thy stumbling or triumphant treads 
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30 LIFE. 

Then quick, his full envenomed tongue thrust 

forth 
Will sting thee, Achilles ! in the heel. 
This the world's meed of fame thou'lt live to feel. 
Then, shall the poison circulate with each 
Swift coursing of thy noble blood ! It rests 
With thee. Love maketh to itself a home 
In hearts wherein 'tis born, not drawn from 

source 
Extraneous. 'Tis not received, but born 
Spontaneous, and ever to itself 
Its life and food. Within the heart wherein 
It feeds and nestles Love imparteth power, 
And coloring and essence antidote, 
To the swift blood ; and the envenomed sting 
Shall never taint the fount, nor wring it with 
A pang. 'Tis self-subduing Love that wins 
The prize — with all its sufferings suffering not 
Defeat. In Love receiving, giving all. 
Therein alone thy fame may rest secure. 
For Love is Charity, Truth, Beauty, Fame ! 

Where is the anchor of a storm -tossed soul ? 
I see thee, Hope, bright gleam of God-light ! blest 
Dispenser of His purest rays that glow 
A halo round His face of Love. — Bright Power! 
That, poised upon thy outstretched wings of light 
Divine, dost bend above the heavy heart 
And lift the leaden weight that crushes out 



LIFE. 31 

Its blood in the perse clottiiigs of despair ! 

Leaving the ruby tide to flow the course 

Of flooding happiness. O faithful friend ! 

Last to desert the seat of human pain, 

In whatsoever heart it dwells, thou art 

The gravitating force that holdeth all 

The sister powers firm tending toward God. 

We dream and dream ; we wish, and hope, and 

doubt ; 
And then return to Hope. No magnet draws 
So strong. As needles we but oscillate, 
And then to point again. Uncertain dip 
And variation, as the elements 
Terrestrial let up or draw for earth 
And hell, alway prevail to mock our charts 
With self-complacent wisdom drawn for heaven. 

We oscillate ; we change. — And what is 
change ? 
On swift and noiseless wing, the thoughtful hours 
Approached. A sapphire sky has worn the hue 
It takes when fading day reveals the full 
Orbed moon to view. How fair she seems to us ! 
While from around her vapor- dimmed face 
Stream forth the wat'ry rays, like the loosed hair 
Blown out from grieving beauty's orbid brow. 
Through swift mutations, all the mists dispersed. 
She beams again irradiate with smiles. 
As though unused to tears, or wearing grief 



32 LIFE. 

But as the semblance of an envious veil 
Provoking contrast where reality 
Outshines itself for more effective end. 

Roll on your trackless way, ye worlds of 

thought ! — 
The Stars ! companionable visitors, 
And company when greater ones are gone ; 
Suggestive ever, loved the best ; with whom 
We hold the sweet and solemn converse felt 
When spirit gently unto spirit calls ; 
These silent, yet impressive, speaking stars 
Have paled before the night orb's brighter glow 
As she in turn will fade before the glare 
A burning sun will deluge earth withal. 
And that great luminary too, whose glance 
At morn touches the glad earth like the smile 
Of God upon a garden, will resign 
The empire where it gloriously reigned. 

So do events o'ercrest each other on 

The shore of Time, each driving each far down 

The measureless abyss of all the past. 

Each frothing through the measure of its power 

To lose its strength in bubbles of the air. 

As circumsrtlnce doth hurry circumstance 

Along the crankled current of events. 

Wave chaseth wave, and billow loud outroars 

Its fellow — all for ever shifting place. 



LIFE. 33 

And dashed in turn by reproducing Time. 

And this is life ! in ev'ry vain essay 

For ever seeking, never to attain 

The ever changing purposes of man. 

And this his power and triumph, that dissolves 

In airy bubbles of the yeasty waves. 

Yet is there more beyond, if we will look again. 
The wave doth bear a jewel in its breast — 
The choice concretion of unmeasured seas — 
By Time, through long uncounted process, 

wrought 
To rich transparent amber. Oft it holds 
Embalmed what else had perished. In the 

waves 
That bear the ruddered or unruddered man 
On the swoln sea of circumstance, exist 
The richer elements of concrete Truth. 
The constant working in a ceaseless surge 
Of these, the purer thoughts and purposes, 
The reverential hopes and sympathies. 
Are ever casting up the precious gem. 
High on the endless shore that bounds the main 
Of Time the precious amber-droppings fall. 
Holding embalmed the silent better deeds 
Of ev'ry billow-beaten mariner. 

As swift event succeeds event, and in 

The bosom of the wave that beats the shore 



34 LIFE. 

Of Time a truth is held — while stars go out. 

Moon sets, and mighty sun sinks out of sight. 

The thunder roll of systems of the worlds 

In billows rolling on eternal shores. 

Doth hold its truth : — mere creatures these — while 

high 
The rush tumultuous of crystal globes 
On crystal globes upheaped, in cresting foam 
Invades the awful strand, dashing afar 
The dazzling spray in glowing fragments of 
The shivered suns — not more than bubbling 

power 
Of frothy circumstance, the final end, 
Nor e'en the cause. — A changeless Cause exists, 
A Power controls ; this only worship we. 

What is Power ? It is with song, with word. 
Or thought, full freighted with the beautiful, 
To call the soul into a living face. — 
The face of man or woman ; thine, O Moon ; 
Thine, mountain hoar that shoulderest the 

heavens ; 
Thine, lake that lispeth love so liquidly ; 
Thine, faithful stars ; thine, changeful trees ; the 

face 
Of all supernal, all beloved below. 
Thus with the wand Imagination call 
The spirit of near Nature up. There is 
A tonic in the very exercise 



LIFE. 35 

Of such that sets it up with springs of steel 

And tunes the mind to unconceived power. 

To summon soul into the beaming eye ; 

Behold it gleaming, swelling, rolling ; see 

It bound and leap like the held courser ripe 

For the race ; to feel it springing forth from out 

The half-restraining body to elance 

Itself into thine own stirred soul : then launch 

Themselves together on the very vast 

And surge of an Eternity that rolls. 

Unceasing and tumultuous, a sea 

Of souls. There to interpret each to each 

Its truth : sublimest Nature's active force 

Infused. And this is joy, eternal joy ! 

Sole measurement of Time, sole rod and chain, 

Sole weight and scale may stretch to amplitude 

Of spirit life, or may disintegrate 

The atoms that make up Eternity. 

And this is Poesy, work for the bard 

To whom Eternity is Soul and Love. 

How deal the Power ? Who is the Bard ? Of 
Faith— 
What is it ? Whither tendeth earth and man 1 

The world lay ope before me as a scroll : 
Of evil then and truth I saw in all — 
The past and future grew a present one. 



36 LIFE. 

Behold ! the Cycles of past Ages rise 
From their grim sepulchres — weird sisters, wan 
And mournful. Folding their grey robes about 
Them, bowed, they stand expectant. Light de- 
scends. 
Filling the air ignite, celestial. See ! 
Slow moves the train in file, ghast spectres of 
The unreclaiming Past, with inward rage 
Enforced ; for the complying Powers admit 
The tribute sternly claimed by Coming Time. 
As they march, each putting forth a shaking arm. 
With her weird finger writes upon the air 
Dark characters — like serpents numberless 
Cast on a sunlit sea. Back to their tombs 
The ghosts of Ages sink, loud shrieking ! Left 
Behind, their awful signs engross the air. 
Writhing and bubbling ; omens strange, and dread 
Ingredients cast in magic cauldron fired 
For fell intent. Supernal light grows dark 
Behind the awful fermentation. Lo ! 
The cauldron contents horrible, self-stirred. 
Inbreeding hideous life with self, o'erflow 
All space. Dread wings, grown bat-like, spread 

throughout. 
And flout the heavens, impious ; while foetid du-st, 
Outshaken from their folds, covers all earth 
And intermediate things with a foul life, 
As of the creeping dust- life of the grave, 
Corruption fed. 



LIFE. 37 

Dread shades of buried Past ! 
Is such your mission 1 Tends thus the time 
To come '? Behold ! a Star rayed through the 

storm 
Struggles to life. The dark mass yawns awide, 
And a new light supernal beams abroad, 
New silvered, purer. 

Earth is glad : as there 
Upon the yeasty waves, when sombre night 
Has dropped a thousand veils on ocean's face, 
And smiting billows dart like forking flames, 
A struggling bark rolls heavily. Its crew. 
Without a warning compass to relieve 
The dread of storm-lashed coasts, feels suddenly 
The grateful calm of a rude wind at rest ; 
And then, as when the unseen rocky roof 
Of a wide cavern by an earthquake's stroke 
Is rent, and through the fissure darts the light 
Of heaven, the moon pours down its silvery flood 
Upon a hundred lifted faces, straight 
With hope all smiling. Less than they of joy 
Those merry maidens round the maypole know ; 
Where eyes of jet are flashing brightly ; eyes 
Of blue are dancing lightly ; zephyrs gay 
With tresses play ; breasts of snow, cheeks aglow. 
And twinkling feet, in circles fleet, with beat 
And chime keep flying time ; with throbbing 
breasts 



38 LIFE. 

In swift accord kissing the sward in fresh 
And loving gladness. Youths come tripping, too, 
Love-lorn and fancy thralled. The frolic love, 
The maiden love, the lamblike love, the light 
And gambol love's aglow. Now two and two, 
Pair on, pair off, and love is phasing like 
The wax and wane of Luna with the rise 
And glare of burning Sol co-rounding light 
With light, and light for heat. Changeful with 

skip 
And loll, or fast, or slow, now to and fro 
The couplings go. Through dimming paths that 

crook. 
For bower and nook with loving song they go. 

The visions lengthen. Call the nations up ! 
Thick as the blazoned banners hung in old 
Ancestral halls, or Chapel of St. George, 
Hung out by Time, they float before my eyes. 
Behold the Genius of the Coming Age ! 
Clothed with the thunder of Niagara, 
Erect above its wondrous verge he stands 
And looks along the awful Past. 

Lo ! where 
A fangless Serpent, glittering, golden scaled. 
Uncoils itself in the broad sun to bask. 
Rearing aloft a head whereon the world 
Looks long with cries of wonderful, it turns 



LIFE. 39 

And buries deep in earth, its sepulchre 
By a winged lion tombed. 

A river- god 
Breeds Titans from the spawn of crocodile. ' 
Mountains are lift. Winged globes descend, 
And, pinion-bound, roll down a pyramid ; 
Where mighty waves of sand engulph the whole. 

In the first flush of robust youth, so fair, 
A Virgin lifts a Phrygian cap upon 
A javelin, qnd worships. See her next 
Upstanding proud beside a god, in high 
Triumphal car loud thundering along 
A bloody plain. Receiving straight divine 
Afflatus, she conceives and^ears new gods 
With higher attributes, peopling therewith 
The universe. She re-creates an earth 
And heaven that blend in one ; and her strange 

power 
Makes beauty grow a petrifaction. Lo ! 
A change. The javelin has fallen prone 
Before a figure, purpled, diademed. 

An Empress robed in purple stolen from 
The sun, her foot upon the world's neck plants ; 
Lifts the tiara from her blood-streaked brow 
And casts it in a crater. Haught she stands. 
Loud mutterings announce conceiving throes, — 



40 LIFE. 

The molten birth o'eiflows, — destroying rage 
Sweeps on, and two white arms wave wildly o'er 
The flood, that cools, dead Glory to embalm 
For time. 

Where, art-enshrined, in fragments, all 
Immortal of decay, the stelene marble sows 
The reverent earth. With face of Juno's mould, 
A Form, in white and crimson robes, against 
A broken column leaning, dreams of Art 
And Glory. Dream of false and true ! Dov/d 

swoops 
An eagle double-headed, and with black 
Wings, flapping fiercely, smites her blind ! Be- 
hold !— 
Mid dust and ruins gioping, darkness cursed, 
Bebaddled, impotent, — Immortal Death ! 

A Queen stands forth ! Her glowing, golden 
locks 
Float on a neck of snow. One hand is on 
A lion's mane with a subduing power. 
The other grasps a trident ; and the pride 
Of empire beams from out the skiey blue 
Of her star-lighted eyes. Her children group 
Around her, and the restive lion smites 
Them with his paw. Their blood besprinkles 

earth. 
And messengers spring up that far and wide 



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LIFE. 41 

Go forth to sow harsh-husks inclosing tares 
With seeded kernels sound — the germs of world- 
Regenerating fruit — and thunder with 
A double tongue, Freedom and Tyranny ! 

Lo ! new Hesperian shores ! whereon a bark — 
As some lone Albatross far flown from haunts 
Familiar — touches a seaweed-bearded prow. 
A comely band debark and kneel in prayer : 
Before them spread an open Book of Life. 
Bronzed hosts collect beneath the beechen boughs. 
Wondering — pausing to pass the pipe of peace. 
Hid by the friendly cloud, a monster comes, 
Four-footed, hideous in scales, with jaws 
That yawn awide, he crawls among the band 
Whispering of land. Then loud a rifle's crack 
Swift signals slaughter. Whoopings yell return. 
Where now tlie beechen shade and the dusk forms 
Were gathered there 1 A woodman's axe rings 

ckar 
Reply ! 

Two watery arms infold an isle 
Orove-shaded to the shore. A warm white hand 
Clasps peace around dark fingers stiff with pride. 
Where honest thrift burghers a fieldy town. 
Afar from dykes familiar, traffic trod. 
Where noble sons of art and science dwell 
.Ajid conscience independent knowledge leads,. 
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42 LIFE. 

Content reposes on the ready lap 

Of Probity, nor dreams to ask of Time — 

Shall great Manhattan Babylon the world 1 

Where the hot sun rides ever high, a small 
Embrowned crew as centaurs ride. Their hearts- 
Hug lust of gold with passion's hot embrace. 
Among a swarthy crowd, gorgeous, arrayed 
In plumage of gay birds, and on whose lips 
Is peace,, they charge. One hand is holding high 
A cross, the other wields a sword. Blows fall 
Like hail among the feathered crowd. See now,, 
A mount of bloody corses ! At the top 
A planted cross mocks Calvary to tears. 
Hell laughs volcanic throes. The outraged -Son ^ 
Beside the Father throned on high, looks down 
And frowns denial. There an Eden land 
Through centuries lies orderless. And groups 
Of Ages, struck with consternation dumb. 
Stand veiled behind the great eclipse of Christ ^ 

Later in time. His look the circuit sweeps. 
A land with high, low, moist and dry extends 
Through arctic, temperate, and torrid clime.. 
A land felicitously made, where spread 
Afar those grassy seas, the prairies, flower 
Enamelled, broadest provinces of mead ! 
Whose roaming droves of buflfalo are scarce 
Outnumbered by the stars that sweetly smil^ 



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LIFE. 43 

Bright welcomes to the flowers below. Great 

land! 
Whose lakes as seas link after link expand : 
Forests for ages may resound with cries 
Of the wild huntsman ; where through all great 

streams 
Meander with continuous flow whereon 
May float the commerce of a world-wide main. 
Where vasty grandeur every feature marks 
On Nature's face sublimely borne. There see 
The worshipped javelin uplift anew, 
Crowned as of old. With prouder hopes upraised ; 
Far higher than Olympus raised above 
A hemisphere where broader ground invites 
The wide earth's millions to the rite. Held now 
By yet another Virgin, not less fair. 
Her iron car, drawn by leviathan 
With breath of fire, is thundering along 
A plain begrained. A cornucopia 
Held lygh pours wealth of all along the way. 
New fire from heaven she wrests ; and hourly saith 
To the winged lightnings — go and do my best ! 
And they obey. And new creations hers, 
Not less immortal, where great gods of peace 
And plenty head the train. A Pallas, great 
And godlier than of old, at every hearth 
Fulfils her mission, feeding vulgar minds 
Co-equal with the great. Hope of the world 
And special care of heaven ! the heart-sick hosts 



44 LIFE. 

Of all the world in panting crowds make haste 
To touch her robe ; and at the touch made whole, 
Leap up informed with life anew. 

See now ! 
She stands majestic : from her eyes the fire 
Of inspiration and of matchless might. 
Far-flashing beacon of wide hopes, streams forth. 
Rooted upon the everlasting rock, 
Proudly she looks upon opposing waves, — 
That lash its base as raged with bloody scourge 
Bellona round the walls of Troy. Their cry. 
Destruction ! heard in loud hoarse murmurings, 

sounds 
Joyous in despot's ears ; a knell to all 
Who hope for man. Innoxious strife ! kind 

heaven 
With watchful care protects the maid. A wail 
Of sorrow from high places borne has drowned 
The uproar, while a broad-winged angel fctfm 
Comes shouting — " commercial freedom sinew 

limb 
To limb !" and straight abashed, the waves are 

stilled. 

Yet o'er this land the Genius looks. Lo, where 
Pacific seas uphold pacific strife 
With Orient for world dominion ! where, 
With all concentrate winds the millions rush 



LIFE. 45 

From distant Ind, high Araucania, 

Frorne Caucasus and burning Afric sands, — 

Celt, Saxon, Malay, Tartar, Aztec, Gaul: 

Where greatest Nimrods bleed the quartzy rock. 

And aureate veins flood deserts. Gain is sun. — 

Musquito-bred, the rush of cities springs, 

'Twixt morn and eve, to life peopling the wastes. 

Earth through the rounded cycle of a moon 

Unwatching slumbers, while the yellow blood 

Sows dragon teeth to flux the prairie where 

The cicala alone broke silence, — wakes. 

And rubs its doubting eyes before the hived 

Hum metropolitan. Eureka ! and 

An empire springs to life. Art strews her gems 

Around. Luxury clothes herself in gold. 

And sinks unsheltered at Privation's feet 

To moan. Gain laughs and groans. Virtue is 

sick — 
Now raging fevered, then collapsed with chill. 
Law lisps its legend lore in adder ears. 
Vice shrieks a laugh, and to his leper breast 
Hugs lust and murder, riotous. Death stalks 
Among unheeded, while he swings his scythe 
Reeking with blood and flesh corrupted. Still 
The hosts unsated throng around Nevada. 

His gaze drops down. At hand upon a rock 
O'ertopping hills of foam, a figure swart 
And tall leans on an unbent bow. His hair. 



46 LIFE. 

Black, floating far, by a lone eagle's plume 
Enerowned. Lifting his stern, sad eyes, he starts ! 
And shivering to a fit, falls headlong, — lost 
In the foana below. The Genius drops a tear, 
Turns slowly, and his look leaps far beyond. 

A Lion, fierce and hot, red-eyed with thirst, 
Laps at the sea. Maddened, he turns, and roars 
Consuming rage. An eagle, eyried strong. 
Rock-hemmed and forest-built, beyond the sea 
Hears the loud cry of Want, bears on his flight. 
And in the lion's lolling mouth upturned 
Lets fall the drops beak-borne from his far home. 

The GAiius waves august command — and lo ! 
Beside a portal, grim and ghastly War 
Stands sentinel : winged Glory plumes his helm, 
Half poised for flight across where Peace erect 
Co-sentry stands. By thunders and the flash 
Electric of recorded thought announced. 
Issues the Age : War starts dismayed, and half 
Obeisant bends : Peace frowns and grasps Wear's 

sword : 
Catching fit element whereon to spread 
Her wings. Glory receives the Age's breath. 
Soars high, and circling o'er the head of Peace, 
Descends to crown her radiant brow. 



BOOK THE THIRD. 



While yet I knelt in that swift moving dream ^ 
Wherein the ages ran their gleaming round 
Through the mere point of all-contracted time 
And space, the crystal drop and magic lens 
Of reflex spiritual, lo, heavenly sight ! 
The Genius of the Coming Age stood forth 
Seraphic at my side. Not more erect, 
Of face so I'airly radiant with grace. 
Nor clothed in such effulgent panoply 
Of wings that mantled regally his breast, 
Or spread as golden suns to brighten earth, 
And plumes majestic that divinely shed 
A heavenly fragrance round, that Raphael, sped 
From God first messenger to earliest man 
In virgin bowers admonished. Nor his tones. 
With conscious weight of mighty import held. 
More fraught with eloquence sublime — in sweet 
Mellifluous flow or roll of deeper thought 
Developed — than the voice that filled mine ear. 



48 LIFE. 

" Before Time was that is ; the sought and 
shunned, 
The snatcher up of incomplete designs ; 
Ere Chaos ruled, I lived atomic in 
The Essence forth from Him divergent — He 
Almighty, sole Original. With swift 
Uriel, on a beam of light sent forth 
To warn the guarding Gabriel of wiles 
On Eden prey intent, I beamed abroad 
A co-eternal life. All ages me 
Subserve. Mine is it to express from past 
For coming time. Bold questioner of thine 
Own soul and God ! the Key of Love hath oped 
To view Hope, Beauty, Fame, and Power. The 

Past, 
The buried and the breathing nations came. 
Rose quickly on thy quest of Power's use. 
Of Bard, of Faith and Man's determined course, 
And I would press the knowledge on thy 
heart." 

Then eager and enwrapt through force of thaV 
Already seen and heard, thus I to him : — 
" O Messenger celestial ! Power divine ! 
With reason strung, to utmost bias bent 
Of reverent scholar for his master's lore, 
And all attent of ear, awaiting I 
Beseech communing free." 



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t Then he to me : — 

*' First came an age when faith was simply pure. 
Political nor philosophical 
Dominion held of mind ; the gush of thought 
Spontaneous in primitive belief 
Was general consciousness of God. And man 
Was only man ; content to look above 
Himself for attributes of deity. 
To own responsibility to One 
Divinity high over self. Then from 
The side where flamed the Cherubim to guard 
Arboreous way, they looked upon the plain 
Whereon primeval Enoch rose in Nod : 
Bearing the name of he through Lamach sire 
Of Jabal, father of the tented herd 
Attenders. Then his brother Jubal choired 
First hallelujahs to the God of all 
In dulcet symphony of harp and peal 
Of sounding organ : kin of Tubal Cain,- 
First of the cunning hand in brass and iron. 
Once, where the Iroquois with spreading flow 
Receives fresh seas for laden ocean's brim, 
The stern Mohegan sacrificed to One 
Great Spirit bloody trophies of his foe. 
Created with a soul instinct to feel 
A God, man worshipped him sublime in truth 
Till human passions, combating, attained 
A power corruptive. Then came ages when 
Men learned from men, and passion deified, 
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50 LIFE. 

And passion dealt the blow laid low t|jeir gods. 

Seen through the mists of time, the Deity, 

And heroes near at hand ; the attributes 

Of moral force ; and powers of earth and air 

In action felt, confusedly grew one. 

From out this ample fund material 

And incorporeal, confounded strange, 

Was multiplied, as the occasion called, 

The families of gods to suit all needs. 

Men saw the gloom of night, the light of day, 

And gave to each its proper soul distinct. 

Then Erebus and Night from Chaos sprang, 

And Nox and Erebus, great gods, produced 

Fair Day and Ether, kindred gods of might. 

Men slept and dreamed, and lo ! two sons of 

N.0X, 
Somnus and Morpheus, were deities. 
The sun's rays warmed, and Mithras rose a god; 
Upon the barren earth, impersonate 
In Danae, his descent in golden showers 
That fertilized begat fertility. 
Personified in Perseus. He who 
With golden sword the baleful Gorgon killed 
That typified the pale unwarming moon 
Whose power turned soil to sterile stone. And 

Sol, 
Called Helios, with his ray-encircled head, 
Was born of Theia and Hyperion. 
The fierce tornado strewed with wrecks the shore. 



LIFE. 51 

And men beheld Ocypete the swift, 

Aello, storm, Celeno the obscure. 

Three furious Harpies raging swift of wing. 

Love warmed the heart of man ; and Beauty 

called 
Delight, and shed a glow of pleasure, calm 
In full fruition of supremest joy, 
Throughout his being. Then greatest Zeus begat 
Of blooming Dione the goddess fair 
Of love and beauty, Aphrodite, crowned 
By the Hours, while Cupids and the Graces hung 
Attendant on her dove-drawn chariot's way ; 
And round her waist a zone of mystic power, 
A love-inspiring zone, imparted grace 
And beauty. Then the chaste Diana bore 
The splendors of the crescent moon upon 
Her silver bow, and loved to sport amid 
The deeper beauties of the forest wood : 
Where young Endymion in beauty slept 
That drew the goddess from her azure way 
Stooping to print her only kiss of love. 

" Of greatest deeds, beneficent or strong. 
The men arose for death to deify. 
Great Djemschid, he who led nomadic tribes 
Of Iran old from chill Tartarean wilds. 
Mount Albora and source of Oxus down 
To sunny Var : who founded Istakhar, 
The lost Persepolis entombing race 
Of royal Acheemenides, from him 



52 LIFE. 

Derived, through hallowing Time to Perses 

raised — 
From Perseus sprung — as fabled demi-god, 
Mithraic oped the Persian soil to use. 
Brave Theseus who in Epidaurus slew 
The cruel Periphates, daily couched 
In ambush for the traveller whose blood 
Imbued the savage giant's hideous club. 
And by Megara's side, upon the sea 
O'erhanging path encountering Sciron, threw 
Him o'er to meet a fate the savage dealt 
On those who sought his roof. At Hermione 
Upon the dread Damastes wrought the pain 
Procrustean long put upon his guests. 
Who offered up himself a victim with 
The tribute yearly fed the Minotaur, 
Half human and half bull in Cretan cave, 
And with the guiding thread, enchanting gift 
Of Ariadne's budding love, achieved 
The labyrinth, o'ercame the monster dire. 
And rid his country of a tribute paid 
In sons and daughters fair and dear to all. 
The hydra-strangling Hercules, and strong 
Subduer of the Nemean lion through 
Whose hide no arrow pierced. The hero who 
The guarding dragon slew ; and gathered then 
The golden apples of Hesperides. 
Who wrested from the grasp of Orcus grim 
And then to Thessaly's sore grieving king 



LIFE. 53 

Restored the dead Alceste, spouse beloved. 
And self-destroyed to save his royal life. 
The unforgiving Danaus, v^^ho bade 
His fifty daughters bathe their nuptial beds 
Red with their unsuspecting bridegrooms' blood 
That fearful night w^hen only one escaped ; 
And reigned in Argos — ancient city, best 
Beloved of Juno. Old Egyptus vi'ho 
First won the Delta from the blacker race ; 
Both sons of the Phsenician Belus — not 
The Assyrian of that name, great Bali, known 
As Baal, oriental god, and held 
High Assabinus Ethiop lord, one god 
With Apis on the Nilan shore — but he 
Of Epaphus descended, sire of that 
Great Cadmus, founder of Titanic Thebes, 
Who carried letters to the darksome land. 
Conquered Illyria and was its king. 
The Epaphus great lo's son, begot 
By Jupiter, and founder of the race 
That over Hellas reigned : as Isis known, 
The lo sired by Inachus the old, • 

A flowing stream of Oceanus born. 
Great heroes all ! of strange heroic times ; 
Some real men once living, fabled more, 
Resolving back their parentage within 
The womb of elements and greater powers 
Than they, the types of mythic meaning deep 
And clear, — collected gods and demigods ! 
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54 



" In every grove a Dryad dwelt, and roamed 
On every mount an Oread, with bow 
And shaft, a huntress in Diana's train. 
Beside each font a Naiad sat, and from 
Her pitcher welled the brooks away to stray 
Meandering through nymph-haunted mead and 

dale. 
In hill and forest, lake and stream, was seen 
A life, and every life became a deity 
Endued with forms imagination gave ; 
While genial blessings and tormenting ills 
Deific worship won from love or fear. 

In all this labyrinth of deity. 
Objective worship, dwelt a quality 
Of psychical in mythic depths innate ; 
And born of human nature's craving need 
To bow itself before divinity. ' 

The charm of an indwelling beauty hung 
Around, pervading all this universe 
Of myth ; Art threw a decorative grace. 
With pure esthetic element replete. 
Over ideal^nd material. 
Transfusing a retentive element ; 
And thither Poesy on hovering wing 
From every age hath flown to re-illume 
Its glow at the imperishable shrine." 

Then I to him with gendered thought broke 
forth :— 



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" In what a maze had pure simplicity 

Of earlier time become involved ! How may 

We thread the labyrinthine maze save with 

The clue of love 1 Not Ariadne's gift, 

But His, the Only One, given in his Son, 

Not held by Theseus alone, but grasped 

Within the hearts of all the soul-possessed. 

It is not strange that in the silent lapse 

Of ages such as those, the busy mind 

Co-working with the sensuous in man. 

Too much made heaven with earthly passions 

filled 
And circumfused : that soul should sink aghast. 
And seek, by strong imagination led, 
A home in hell, while earth grew red and rich. 
As autumn leaves in gorgeous colors glow. 
Prepared, sap-left, to drop, shrivelling to dust." 

And he to me, benignant in reply : — 
" 'Twas then the interposing Deity 
Advanced in front of all the heroes, powers 
Mankind had raised between themselves and him. 
Full in their view, His own incarnate self !" 

" Then Love was paramount !" joyous I cried. 

When he with stern ironic tone resumed : — 
" Ages there were when death loomed large in 
sight 



56 



Of men, the front of God grew corrugate 
With frowns, and love was curdled into fear! 
And then the great world's heart, entranced with 

fear. 
Dreamed dread damnation ; and o'er heaven 
Red judgment hung a pall dripping with blood. 
And all was done in God's name, He of love 
The soul ; and in his Son's — who loved — they 

said. 
How the arch-fiend and enemy of man 
Enthroned supreme in Hell with loud ha ! has I 
Shouted derision o'er the glozing words. 
The very air of heaven benighted earth 
While giving back in thunder-peals the groans 
That rolled beneath low leaden roofs among 
Those Adriatic isles whereto the old 
Veneti fled from the barbaric Hun ; 
And rose from dungeon depths beneath a land 
Where the dead warrior with a monarch's pomp 
Before his gallant army rode the day 
When Cid Bivar held conduct of the way. 

" Thereafter men from books drew sluggish lore, 
Soul-worship deluged men with deity, 
And creeds and crudities stirred up the soil 
■ That roiled the stream of swift transparent thought ; 
And seeking to know much the world forgot 
Itself; rocked baseless, like a sick 
Banqueter heady with overdraught of wine. 
And many knitted in the revel who 



LIFE. 57 

In every hero see a Christ ; and with 

A strong confusion on them tread upon 

The borders of that 'wildering world of maze, 

The labyrinth of old. Nor this is strange. 

Each age the moral universe doth star 

Its Sirius for periodic rule, 

And when it rages men go mad unaid 

Of circumstance, and forth like very dogs. 

" Through all an ageless thread continuous ran 
Of those who drew from Nature error and 
From Nature truth — dreaming the while of God. 
Originators of the thoughts impregn'd 
Events are born of, greater they than quick 
And pigmy actors mingling in the stir 
Of movements fathers of ideas have sired." 

Then I to him with ready transport thus : — 
" Ideas that dive into the soul and stir 
The molten crater's all-conglobing fires 
Till through disrupted surface, habit glazed, 
Shoot up the elements of change. Ideas 
That rouse us quickly from a heavy sleep 
Of surfeitage, and send the fumy blood 
Hot on the bursting brain, to madden us 
With dreams of doing for a grateful world. 
The thoughts we put in silken purses, close 
And draw to con again a hundred times 
A day, as boys their firstling piece of coin. 
Ideas that glass our eyes with microscopes 



58 



To show us gilded worlds on grassy blades, 

And a whole universe within ourselves. 

The thoughts that heave our hearts to surface, as 

New isles from ocean's deep, and build a place 

For verdure where the waste of waters rolled. 

Once, through the round of what we call a year. 

My lot was cast beside the ocean's brim. 

A grassy plain, a waving prairie sea. 

Rolled landward from the shining shelly rim 

That like a white and silken ribbon drew 

A barrier with Beauty's strength between 

The seeming sea and Might's reality. 

There, 'twixt the sounding and the mimic seas. 

And thence toward th' unbroken sedgy waste 

Whose plain the azure horizon embraced. 

Around the margents of some placid pools 

That gemmed the prairie's livery of brown, 

The snow and roseate flamingoes arched 

Their graceful necks, sole sentries of my main. 

Oft from the doorway of my lonely hut — 

In memory for aye a cherished home. 

For that the Ocean was my constant tiurse 

Whose lullaby was in my drowsy ear 

Its latest guest, and in the daily dawn 

Of waking sense first greetings sent, and all 

Throughout the wider noon of tropic days 

Her voice was my companion, tireless aye 

Of question and reply — that doorway forth, 

The humor prompting, I would cast a stone 



LIFE. 59 

And listen for its plash among the waves, 

That multitudinous with ceaseless roar 

Heaved their broad crests along the sandy shore. 

That voice upheaved in solemn music from 

The Soul of Things, and finding utterance 

In Ocean's heaving of a bosom marks 

The beating of this orbed Earth's great heart 

Of fire — that voice struck on my conscience with 

The strong rebuke of some eternal Power, 

The while I listened for the smothered sound 

Of petty pebbles that my puny arm 

Had mocked the sea withal. Even thus before 

The all-embracing thought marks of the Great 

Of old have I withdrawn presumptuous arm 

Outstretched for record of a fainter force." 

Then he to me, resuming thus, benign :— 
"In all these courses of suggested aims 
Continuous ran for man's discreetest use. 
And yet another stronger thread of those 
Who, knowing God, saw only Him at hand 
Unveiled, lived immortality, and dead 
For time, bequeathed it to eternity. 
Long-bearded men with reverence written on 
Their brows, that ceased to age with age, 
And with uplifted voices held the sun 
Of all-destroying Time suspense to shine 
Midway in heaven, above their rimed heads. 
Chiefest of all ! those greater lights that moved 



60 LIFE. 

In patriarchal pomp from Ur along 

The plain of Moreh, down to Jordan's tide ; 

Along Euphrates and Orontes side ; 

And thence across to Edom's border far. 

The mighty one who smote the desert rock 

And water flowed. Another, holy man 

Of visions, shouting, ' Wonderful ! Behold 

The Counsellor, Emmanuel !' And he 

The favored, death's corruption spared, who rose 

Within a chariot of fire with steeds 

Of flame, upon a whirlwind borne, to heaven. 

And many more, a host unparalleled. 

Great lights who rose from out the bosom of 

One faithful people, and. for them, though bond 

Or free, bare constant witness to the One, 

The living God ! without a country, yet 

Eternally a people ! scattered through 

The nations as a sign, triumphant sign 

Of early truest faith. Unbending scorn 

Of its fulfilment bringing down a power 

Of wrath, hurling them forth in sight of men 

The branded witness to their unbelief. 

Wrapped in eternal night, the past doth heaven 

One greater Star whose scintillations fight. 

Fateful, the present to the coming time. 

" Commingled all to form the present age, 
Like to a thrifty husbandman that sows. 
Sows plentiful, whether for reaping of 
His own or gain of some to come, not he 



LIFE. 61 

Productless leaves to lie the strong fat soil. 

Thus comes the Age we live in, born of all. 

Less swollen with the fully garnered store 

Of rich and ripe inheritance, than big 

With the quick life conceived within itself. 

A life now struggling to its wondrous birth 

Midwifed by the electric flash — thought's own 

Fit minister — and mystic agencies. 

An Age that shall outage all ages past 

And present. Powers mysterious and force 

Of spirit and material shall serve 

This Age. These harnessed to its car, shall bear 

It on a flight beyond the vision scope 

Of ages precedent ; and from peaks 

Of mountain thought uphold th' invaded heavens^ 

Man speak to man across a chasm new-bridged : 

Bridged by mysterious agencies ; by rights 

All freely owned to ; by the powers of air, 

Earth, water, fire ; the incandescent, strange. 

And yet scarce dreamed of, woven in a field 

Of cloth of gold for common ground whereon 

All men may labor and embrace. Then shall 

Be closed those low-arched cloisters, mossed with 

age. 
Where knowledge rusted in a hoarding vault ; 
Then shrunk the sway of ancient cowled resource 
Where those whom fate, or fortune, or the will 
Inscrutable of Providence had whipt 
Into a sore despair of worldly worth 
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62 LIFE. 

Buried their wounds from the eventful world's 

Mixt intercourse of rough renewal ; then 

The higher paths betrod by Labor's new 

Ennobled heel will close old avenues 

Of egotistic penance brooding o'er 

Its ills, as broader vistas stretch away, — 

Highways of Labor's apotheosis. 

The fields whereon a nobler heroism 

Draws good from ill amid the daily clash 

Of lot with lot, — aspiring thus, as toward 

The highest goal of works, to merge within 

The infinite humanity, — the great 

Heart human that cements a brotherhood 

Of universal tie, no more confined, 

Self-holden in monastic walls. 

" 'Twill be 
Of Christianity, this brotherhood. 
The clear exponent, when high souls shall shine 
On every hand with brightening deeds to show 
That, though the world injustice deals as meed 
Of worth ; though unrewarding, cancelled not 
The bond of duty due to man, to self. 
And God. For them the thorns met here declare 
The flowers shall wayside bloom in sunnier clime 
Beyond. To suffer worthily their creed. 
The soul achieves its own attempering art : 
Endurance hath its virtue ; action hath 
No more nor greater than this metal hath. 
Of steel and gold so intimately wrought, — 



63 



Making the toughest ward, as in the famed 

Unbreakable Damascan blade of yore. 

When bowed beneath the chastisement God's hand 

Inflicts, crushed spirit shrinks from ministering 

With soft and slippered care to pampered self. 

Then quick and firm one strides toward and strikes 

His hand into the ready hand of one 

He meets, and shouts — ' Ay, brother ! thou hast 

felt ! 
Hast suffered ! therefore, canst thou read in all 
And understand. Oh ! 'tis your only sage, 
This one, whose teachings have the wholesome 

Sting 
Of Wisdom ! Fitted now for labor we — 
Our faith the panacea for our griefs.' 
There is no dimness on their vision, they 
Within the crystal shrine of Nature sit. 
And on the organ universe they play 
A melancholy tale of sinless woe 
Made joyous — Music grateful in His ear. 
Fit readers they of Nature and of Christ, 
Who in the lily of the valley saw 
A beauty tended by a care divine. 
Refinement, sensibility, and grace 
Shall all be theirs. The sure initial point 
Of wisdom they have learned, — 'tis to respect. 
Somewhat is gained by intuition, even 
As animals through instinct, more is theirs. 
With thoughts and proof the web and woof; 

thoughts high 



64 LIFE. 

And pure ; acts strong and sure ; all things to 

serve ; 
All things deserve ; though nought receiving, still 
Believing, gathering Love to their embrace. 
Feeding their souls on its ambrosial sweets 
They weave the wondrous web of mighty song. 
Where Truth shall palpitate a living soul. 
And Beauty deck the Love within. — No, not 
E'en so were moved the patriarchs of old. 
They whose recorded themes, in lofty strains 
O'er arching Sinai's mount, rolled onward in 
Sublime reverberations along the hills 
And vales of Judah. — Thus inspired, no more 
Thereafter can they live for earth alone 
Than soul can die : their steps have passed within 
The magic circle of the spirit world. 
Throughout the whole world's history they read — 
And it doth gnaw like hunger on their own 
Wrung vitals — want of Freedom christianized ! 
So shall he learn to do his work ; and such 
The field whereon the Bard his cohorts strong 
Shall marshal to the fight in that great cause , 
When learning, freed from clutch of few, dwells all 
Abroad ; with suffering and soothing leagued 
In ceaseless action through the widest field 
Of Labor's true domain." 

With unsealed vision I 
Again, thus raptured. — " Hope, Faith, Beauty, 
Love ! 



LIFE. 65 

Great Powers eternal ! Souls of Thought, aids, ends 

Of purpose ! Now I see ye, greatest Souls ! 

Sweeping Infinity with steady wing. 

Ye are, and ever were, will ever be ; 

And not for nought, this soul doth know. O, 

Soul! 
Thy aim is clear ! Soul ! Soul ! faint not ! 
The broadening vista stretching on afar, 
Highway of Labor's apotheosis. 
Invites thy steps. Guard well thy walking ; tread 
With firm and earnest foot that endless way ! 
It leadeth through Eternity ! Success 
Hath crowned thy effort, and the after life 
Beholds thee landed in a starry sphere 
Radiant with glory. Thy home the while, 
'Tis but a lower terrace of the Way 
Thou learnedest to foot on earth. Like labor there 
Of ceaseless effort, as it did on earth. 
Strengthening, purifying, calls thee on toward 
An upper terrace of celestial life. 
Far on, above, and in a godlier sphere 
It lies ; yet reached, beneath His feet 'tis low 
As where thy footfall first attacked the Way 
When earth and things thereon afaint drew forth 
Thy Labor deeds. Call Hope, Faith, Beauty, 

Love, 
And strengthen well thyself with these ; for there 
They will bestead thee, on the great Highway, 
With that sufficient aid thou needest on earth. 
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6Q LIFE. 

As these shall aid and thou shalt labor here, 
Accorded there their aid ; and low or high 
The terrace where thou'lt land upon the Way 
Whereon to work. Highway beginning with 
The birth of man, it stretcheth on to God, 
Such labor be thine own eternal life, Soul ! 
Hope, Faith, Love, Beauty, aye thy work and thy 
Reward. Thy self-improvement hath no end." 

Accordant, then the bright-winged Messenger 
Celestial thus, the thread of thought assumed, — 
" Yea, action is eternal, and belongs 
Not less to after than to earthly life. 
The soul rests never, and must aye progress 
Toward or retrograde from Deity. 
All life is labor, and all labor love. 
It rests with thee whether the taste of that 
Forbidden tree that thou inheritest 
Shall prove a knowledge helpful that exalts 
Thee to a god, or leaves thee sunk in black 
Abysm o'er which the darkest ignorance 
Would be a glowing sun above a night. 
So ordered that not given to vegetate 
Vapid in Eden idleness, unsought, 
Unwrought, unbought thy goodness, growing aye 
Unconscious as the flower that gladdeth sense 
With sweets received, unknowing whence acquired, 
"Tis given to thee to know, and with the gift 
Responsibility for Labor use." 



BOOK THE FOURTH 



Still on the margin of the magic rock — 
Responsive, I mid thronging Manes thus : 
" Now like a ray of light that twists and twines 
Itself a radiant coronal around a brow 
Of snow, instinctive flashing light divine 
God-sent to crown angelic purity. 
Flashes the truth effulgent of the tale. 
The stranger's tale of dole and high resolve^ 
That gleamed so like a meteor athwart 
My vision, now with holy concord strung. 

" It happed that once upon my way of life 
I met with one, and soon as e'er his glance 
Caught mine, he cried — ' I know thee, friend I 

now list ! 
I have a tale to tell, and thou canst see its truth !' 
The deep cut lines of other cause than rimed 
His head mapped his swart face, and I was glad 
To listen. • Once,' he said, ' I had a friend — 
Of him and his philosophy I speak. 

" ' His face was pale and thought sat on his brow, 



68 LIFE. 

As by a window of the room where oft 
And late he scanned the mystic page for lore 
The Youthful Student stood. Around him fell 
A flood of radiance that seemed to fold 
Him in a mantle bright, and hold his soul 
In solemn contemplation wrapt : while o'er 
His calm and saddened countenance was cast 
A paler hue, as turned in lixt regard. 
Upon it fell the beams of night's bright orb. 
In holy stillness resting there. Both pure 
And lofty was that student's dream, as thus 
He gazed ! while 'fore the mirror of his soul 
Unstained, reflecting each celestial phase. 
Came visions bright and pure of other worlds 
Beyond the limit of his upward gaze. 
Above, illimitable ether spread. 
So pure, the unobstructed vision seemed 
To penetrate with ease its azure depths, 
Far reaching thus along an endless course ; 
While hung suspended in the vasty-void 
Were myriads of crystal lamps that all 
Resplendent glowed with fires empyreal ; 
Or purest lights that beamed from angels' eyes. 
The faithful watchers stationed in the stars, 
With love and kind affection fraught, to light 
His spirit on its way, as high it soared 
To worlds beyond in that rapt dream of his. 
While winging thus its way, a stilly voice, 
Felt deeply thrilling with mysterious power. 



LIFE. 69 

As 'twere the breathings of a spirit lived 
Throughout the glorious all, or hung upon 
The silver flood of Ether's lip, in low- 
Soliloquy that charmed his ear. — " Behold ! 
Through countless ages still sublimely gi-eat. 
Throughout the endless universal whole 
In living letters of renewed worlds. 
Each greater than the last, 'tis written — read ! 
List to the chanted music of the spheres ! 
Is death or life around thee, soul of man V 
It heard ; that noble soul ; and instant knew 
Its lofty immortality. 

" * He dreamed 
A prayerful wish. ' Bright living moon, whose 

mild 
And beaming face is speaking in those deep 
And silent tones that magically stir 
My inmost being, I would be like thee !' 
He saw her slowly sinking through the void 
Of ether, trackless and unclouded, pure 
And calm, unostentatious, yet how grand ! 
In brilliancy so mild, that, where it fell 
Scorched not, but shed a lustre beautified 
And chastened all it touched so silvery. 
He wished that such a course might be his own ; 
As calm, as pure, as bright, to move within 
The sight of men, the object of their mild 
Unheated admiration and regard. 
No hot ambition rousing in their souls, 



10 LIFE, 

No haze of passions to obscure the true — 
Short-sighted self ne'er reaching distant truth — 
But lofty aspirations, nobly pure. 
And love of all the beautiful and good. 
And when he set, that he might leave behind 
A clear unclouded world, o'erspangled with 
Its myriads of brilliant stars, like these 
All vieing in diffusing through mankind 
A light as pure as he dispensed before. — 
Though he had passed, his light had not gone out, 
But shone reflected in the hearts of men. 
Throughout a host of great and good and wise. 

" ' Was it a smile that o'er his face then 
passed 1 
Or did an angel's wing its shadow cast ? 
A soothing calm his spirit circumfused. 
And he and some divinity did then 
Together wander through the spirit land. — 
Enlinked by common tie of part divine, 
The Immaterial pervading All. 
His soul was swelling with the theme sublime — 
The spirit's aspirations, that discourse 
Of immortality, and are the still 
And deep felt breathings of Eternal Life ! 

" ' A second phase his dream of life assumed. 
The wearing years have held their ceaseless 

course. 
Marked with their wonted stains of trust abused. 
Of outraged honor, hopes betrayed, and now 



LIFE, 71 

The world-worn spirit of the Man recalls. 
To pass before the magic mirror of 
His burdened memory, the Student's dream. 
A change has come upon its images. 
Obscurely seen along the mirror's face, 
Now graven o'er with lines of suffering, 
And tarnished, till it pictures indistinct 
The nobly fair proportions of his dream. 
Such griefs were his as lead the soul to life, 
Undying life, or fiercely thrust it on 
The black domain of everlasting death. 
Of what they were it boots not now to tell : 
Let each recall his harshest grief, and he 
Made wise by suffering may feel his ills. 
That he was proud ; aye, as the Morning Star 
Before he fell (nor fallen my friend), but tipt 
With ranker poison every baleful shaft. 
Faithless of good existing, cursing God, 
He begged for death. Amid a whirlpool's foam 
In dire confusion raging, passion blind, 
All lost but prayer, that came in last extreme 
Of hope to nerve his arm for striking forth 
Into a calmer sea — where light came down. 
His life of thirty winters had been strange, 
With various mutations arabesque. 
Most strange and varied ! not so much the life 
Without as the intenser life within, 
Though he had looked on many lands and 
known 



72 LIFE. 

The change of many fortunes high and low. 

The tree full leaved is moved by various airs 

Of gentle breezes and of rushing winds. 

When every bough with twig and leaf describes 

The oft renewed and often varied forms. 

If we but watch them for a breezy hour 

In graceful action, numbers fail to note 

Or eye to see their many movements. So 

Had flit the phases of his restless mind. 

Had moved the pulses of his tasked soul : 

And none had taken note of them : or if 

Perchance some heedless passers here and there 

Had caught the gentle swaying of a bough 

Or marked the hasty flutter of a leaf, 

They recked not of the viewless air — their dull 

Perceptions careless of a cause ; for what 

Was he to them but as another for 

The axe ? What were the airs that moved his 

soul? 
Though doubly they had been the vital breath 
Of the all-hallowed inner life, nor e'er 
Could he have told them : in their breathings sole? 
Self-whispered and to God, their truer form 
And mystic nature put on utterance. 
Self-held the power. And other changes dealt 
With him. The leafless branches often spread 
And groan in desolation over sad 
Bereavement: meanwhile Time rough furrows 

cuts ■'.j^ii.. 'i<. 



LIFE. fJd 

Along the glairy bark ; and grows the tree 
From sapling to a forest lord. The brow 
Of manhood roughed with care o'ertops the form 
Where erst was smoother happier youth. 

" * Agaia 
He prays : and yet another prayerful wish. 
' O mighty Power ! that gave to early youth 
Those lofty hopes for working lasting good, 
This sight grows dim before the graven web 
Whose every line reveals a wrong received 
Or sinful act against thy righteous laws .; 
And thus enmeshing memory, so veils 
From view those bright realities beyond. 
Until the dim obscurity of doubt 
Transforms the real of th' aspiring soul 
To dread unreal of a murdered faith. 
O Power Divine I -of thine own force impart. 
That this weak sight may pierce the veil, and see 
The beauteous good and lofty pure, as in 
That vision, now dim glimmering in view. 
This bark is tost on such a raging sea 
Of troubk, whose dreadful surge, resounding on 
The shore of fate, stuns every sense but one — 
The serpent sting of perfidy ! I own 
Thy justice. Lord ! I would have raised myself. 
Not Christ my Master, in the view of men. 
The spirit deep engulphed in suffering's 
Thrice heated, harsh alembic, may it still. 
By grace sustained through the refining course 
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74 LIFE. 

Fits souls for spheres their early dreams had 

shown, 
With early trust in living good confirmed, 
Tempted, for others' sake forbear ; for wrong 
No wrong return, while gentle kindness wins 
Wrong-doers to the love of good, to own 
The law — as ye would have, to others do. 
With love for that Beneficence gave all 
Still worship Wisdom maketh gain the fruit 
Of labor, for to God inaction is 
Unknown, and non-existent death is not : 
Death is but change, change life and action stilL 
As mind with knowledge filling gains a power 
New beauties to enjoy, each harsher grief 
Love-weaponed spirit thus shall cleave from 

life's 
Encumbered way leaves brighter space for growth 
Of purer joys, the life of higher spheres. 
Still hoping on, still working on, Soul ! 
The triumphs gained in sacrificing self 
To yield another's good are victories 
Most nobly noiseless in Life's Battle won. 
Here ruthless triumphs wrought in war of gross 
Conditioned self with self draw loud acclaim 
Triumphant ; there the noiseless victories 
Alone may claim rejoiceful song — receive 
Such anthems lofty and such peans loud 
As roll in praise around the throne of God.' 
« * A final phase the student's dream assumed. 



LIFE. *?$• 

— • 

The freighted years unstayi la roll along, 

While such his prayer and such his practised creed. 

In answer to the chastened spirit's wail. 

Again it visits him, a higher hope. 

To shed its light along a clouded way. 

And then sweet Peace on dovelike wings descends 

To wrap his spirit in its balmy folds 

Of downy softness that invite repose 

Celestial : and at times th' elastic soul 

Thus in its aspirations soars anew. 

* Dream spirit, come ! and wave thy magic wand, 

Thy mighty wand, that dreams may visit me. 

Bright dreams of seraph land, the loveliest dreams 

That soar with mind toward the Infinite ! 

Come, fairest waking dreams ! come, wafted on 

Pure Poesy's resplendent spreading wings. 

Refulgent with their empyrean glow. 

Then image scenes in beauty's brightest dyes — 

Sing heavenly melodies harmonious. 

Enkindling man's humanity to man. 

Here make thy home, O spirit of the Christ ! 

Interpret thou man's heart and Nature's voice : 

Thus ushered, come ! beside the crystal founts 

That murmur sweetest music round the Cross ; 

Come, voice of Nature ! teacher great and true. 

And breathe into the spirit lofty truths. 

Oh ! Love divine ! eternally enthroned 

In light, endow me with recording power ; 

Give force to reach the kindred parts of that 



^6 LIFE. 

m — 

Diviner essence breathing through us all, 

That they may sound responsive to the touch — 

Ring forth in ciiimes, whose tones, all musical 

With beauty and refined subliniity, 

And deeply fraught with spirit of the pure. 

Shall find an echo in all after life. 

Within the presence of the Holiest !' 

" ' Ho lived with children as a simple child. 
He made him loves of many things ; the day 
That shone for him with glory ; night profound 
With vast of mystery and beauties deep 
Pervading as a soul — the visible dream 
Wherein all nature walks the mystic round 
Of the unknoAvn, the unrcsounding sea 
And ocean of celestial' space ; heat, cold. 
Insects, and flowers ; the thoughts of men and' hopes 
Of maidens. Saw he but the glinting glance 
Of light upon a loaf, he stood' and jo-yed. 
Something he found to clasp, heart wearing as 
Oiv life is clung to. Times and places all 
Suited his purposes. Upon the mart 
Whereon the world slides earnest life caught up 
His strong endeavor. What the moment found 
Lie nearest, straight his duty acted on. 
The low mimosa's modesty was his ; 
Few knew him well, they lowly, as to heaven. 
Undid for him tl^ockets of their hearts : 
And unto them his face was oft a chart. 
Ay more, a fair illumined missal — flowers 



LIKE. 77 

Of heaven and seraph forms illuming — where 
The holiness within was pictured in 
The charming guise a child's simplicity 
Is heir to. Gentleness, affection, too 
Expressed themselves thereon ineffably, 
With sweetest power that won a rapturous 
Heart desperation of devotion's love. 
And was the battle ended 1 No ! each day 
Brought causes for renewal of the strife. — 
Temptation's home is in the heart of man : 
Life's battle ceases only with the life. 
Through death he lives, as causes in effects: 
Albeit names, not acts, are writ on water.' 

" The swart-browed man had told his tale and 
wept. 
Then striking hard his long right hand within 
My own, he said — ' I shall be with you aye: 
Good night, my friend !' I ever loved that man." 

" And well thou mightest " — the bright-winged 
Messenger 
Celestial, after patient listening thus 
Responsive spake — " for he had gained the sum 
Of all 'tis worth thy studies' care to know. 
Man knowledge gains through books from other 

men, 
But wisdom only through himselF from God. 
The nearest duty is the greater one, 
And ever'neath the lifted footing found. 



*7B LIFE. 

Whoso forgives gives readily of much ; 
And who gives freely readily forgives. 
Self-abnegation flowers upon a tree 
Whose root is planted in the heart of God. 
Wait, work, and trust in Him who shapes events. 
How long, O man ! wilt sow the wind and reap 
The whirlwind ? Gently pattereth the rain. 
The undestroying rain, the soothing rain, 
That fresheneth, that falleth from Thy Life, 
Oh ! Christ ! to robe the earth in blooming Truth. 
From Thee, who sheddeth down the kindly rain, 
That glittereth, that shineth in the Light 
Divine of Mercy, that mingleth with Thy blood, 
That gloweth, iris-tinted, with Thy blood, 
Reflecting Mercy with Thy blood, oh ! Christ ! 
To span the blooming earth with Hope and 

Beauty. 
A second Bow of Promise, visible 
To Faith, Seal of a broader covenant. 
Oh ! Thou beloved and infinite in love ! 
Great captain of the Brotherhood of men ! 

" Now while a cloud is swift'ningfore the moon, 
Look ! mortal guesting with immortals — what 
Dost see 1 what hear you sounding out of space." 

" I see a figure wearily 

Pacing a silent shore. 
And hear it singing drearily 

A song I knew belbre. 



LIFE. 79 

When I hear that spirit moaning, 
Moaning on that gloomy shore, 

Mine doth still its grievous groaning, 
While with pity running o'er. 

Heaps of skeletons are there, 

Strewn along that dreary shore — 
Wrecks of forms that once were fair. 

Awful now for ever more. 
There no smooth-lipped shells are found 

Voiceful with their mystic roar, 
But from hollow skulls resound 

Echoes of the wailing sore. 

Sadly sounds that lonely wailing 

Over the clouded sea. 
On to nameless regions sailing 

Beyond that sunless sea. 
Black and white its pinions wearing, 

.Weeping, pearl and ebony. 
Over the unknown sea are bearing 

An argosie of agony. 

Falls a pearly dropping never 

Into the skyless sea ; 
Black and black'ning droppings ever 

Quickly mingling bitterly. 
Listening to that woful wailing, 

Is there a hope for me ? — 
1* 



so LIFE. 

Living death were naught availing 
Were this a boundless sea. 

For this spirit heard rechanting, 

Chanting on that gloomy shore 
Airs with which the soul is panting, 

Is there balm of mine in store 1 
Ceases now that solemn singing 

Sung on that silent shore, 
While my soul responsive ringing 

Sings as it sung before. 



" Gloom of night without its beauty 
Broodeth ever o'er this sea ; 

But there is a country yonder 
Where the stars for ever be. 

Oft the strange, strange land I visit, 
Far beyond the soundless sea — 

Oh ! that land is full of voices. 
And they are not strange to me. 

But if that stranger tongue is spoken, 
Spoken on the nether shore, 

' Where is reason V it is whispered. 
Whispered through the closing door. 

Presentiments are pure communings 
Through the mysteries around — 



LIFE. 81 

Finer essences commingling 

While each sense in flesh is bound. 

Cease, oh ! cease ! thy wailing sorrow, 

Wailing o'er this sullen sea ; 
There are nights that have a morrow, 

Nights where stars will shine for thee. 

Sin hath time and times for sinning, 

But there is another shore ; 
Thine it may be for the winning, 

Thine it may be evermore. 

Grief hath time and times for grieving, 

But upon another shore 
Joys do follow on believing. 

Smiling there for ever more. 

In that country all is beauty, 
Where the stars do make a day : 

On beyond it stretcheth duty, 
Alway beckoning away : 

Where the rosy morning breaking 

Ushers in a golden day. 
And the stars go out with chiming— 

Sweet and solemn chime alway. 

There the bands of little children 
In the golden light do play. — 



H2 LIFE. 

In their hearts the stars are hidden 
All throughout the golden day. 

There the bands of little children 
On their starry lyres do play — 

* Christ the Soul and Christ the Giver !' 
All throughout the golden day." 

My song was ringing on the ambient air, 
When suddenly recalled — as in the change 
Of dreams when all seems changed ; and yet the 

same — 
Upon the Genius fixt again my look. 
Admiringly I gazed and rapt, as with 
Supremest majesty of mien superne 
He lifted up a look that seemed to read 
Infinity, and spake, — sounding a voice attuned 
Less for the charming of my ear, than borne 
The resonance of an unconscious breath 
.In inspirations self-communing drawn. 

" Baal, Osiris, Jove ! where are ye all 1 
All fallen with your worshippers around 
Ye; buried deep mid ruins and in sand. 
How dense your darkness by the Light revealed 
Of the unchanging, ever-living God ! 
Divinest wisdom, providential and 
Benign, throned on its crest, directs the tide 
Of each event that plups a riplet at 



LIFE. 83 

The foot of man, or thunders in the roll 

Of mountain waves o'erflooding all mankind. 

What makes the faintest impress on the mind, 

Unconscious, often deepest stamps the soul. 

Through ages since o'er Bethlehem arose 

The Star, have signs, deeds, thoughts portentous 

great 
Results foretold : each overshadowing 
The speck was seen of shepherds in that day 
Of little note. Yet did the mighty Soul 
Of great Humanity an impress take 
That in the age to come must mould the world, — - 
Shaping its Thought to prove its Destiny. 

" Not then could legions battle o'er a tomb. 
And Saracen and ousel Christian hurl 
Crusadan thunder. Meed of Paradise 
Could win no faith for those whose bloody act 
Of merit was to die man murdering 
For barren property in stones ; nor those 
EntomWig rocks outweigh humanity. 
The spirit of the One they held in flesh 
Will shape the faith : — hosts gaining passport 

death 
In contests wringing bloody drops from hearts 
Of Self These, falling on its tomb shall smoke 
Accepted sacrifice, sole offering 
Befits the altars of the Age to come. 

" As the cloud-rack frets the sky, and the wide 
Winged mountains move their awful fronts through 

air — 



84 LIFE. 

Sublime in threatening power drive on before 

The breath of Eurus toward the setting sun — 

The portents big with deeds of this new age 

Sweep on before our eyes. St. Peter's rocks 

Its dome. Unkinging millions, hosts who hold 

Their bivouac in Tuileries, outroar 

A deep fierce want to learn, a right to know 

Their God and duty. Driving on before 

The Eurus breath of Freedom, moves their power ; 

And earth may tremble in chaotic storms 

Ere freshened for the growing age unborn. 

" This Age to come with Californian wealth 
Shall dower the world. Confronting heaven 

'twill stand 
A giant, facing westward. His brow, broad, 
Colossal with great thought, shall shame the 

World 
From its own littleness, and greatness grow 
With good gigantic in its grovelling heart. 
Spanning the earth at even pace with ligl^ 
His swift'ning tread resound like the loud clang 
Of trumpets echoing among mountains : 
The slow past Ages, roused as with the trump 
Of ended Time, shall start from their crushed 

tombs 
With wild looks, wonder blinded ! From his 

strong 
Right hand shall drop iron and gold ; his left 
Shall scatter printed Thoughts to the world's end ; 



lilFE. 85 

And his loud voice shout Peace ! Peace ! Men 

shall turn 
Their eyes with courtly readiness the way , 
His look directs, and see the portents rise 
Of work for them to do. Like statues fixed 
Along a vista'd avenue — great works 
Of Art directing emulation to 
Its goal — shall rise those shadows of the things 
To do along the highway Labor treads. 
Then Greed of Gain shall feel its pulses quicken, 
Its eye grow luminous with yellow light ; 
And Art, grown child of all the sciences, 
This Art shall stretch itself and put on wings 
Cleaving all space 'twill wrest its secrets from 
The mystic void, transmute them into use — 
Great Nature's forces servient to man — 
And gather to the lap of Gain the wealth 
Abundant of the Age. 

" The printed Thoughts 
Let fly shall then come winged as angels. These 
Shall swoop around the ears of Greed, and prompt 
Purpose to pass grasped gains to their due end. 
And some as new Minerva's, greater than 
Athena of the old shall take the hands 
Of all-conditioned men to lead and teach. 
Then Greed shall minister unwittingly 
To what he knew not of ; and mind informed 
Shall make such end its aim. War's plume shall 

float 



B6 -LITE, 

A pennant masted o''er a merchantman ; 
His arm a rudder for the steaming ship 
That»freights the written words of men ihrougb- 

out — 
On Huron's lakes and the ^Egean sea. 
Where Nilus flows and Colorado rolls. 
And he shall lay his gory head beside 
A broken falchion where a plaugh o'erturns 
A furrow. Finer arts shall then be born 
Of Use's early art : iron and gold 
Shall grow one metal. 

" Then shall all the powers 
That cognate dwell with those in use, ais mind 
And soul in body, be evolved to might 
In action. Education be the wings 
Of Knowledge, while they glow effulged 
With moral light. All lessons, hand in hand. 
Together teaching mind and soul, and all 
Things be in Christ. 

" Then shall appear a bright 
Reality. What now beats high a Hope 
That animates the present Age, and cries 
From many tongues, full voiced with parent woe ; 
Were they who govern peoples made to shake 
With salutary dread till they let fly 
The white-winged messengers of light and peace 
They hold pent hard in their relaxless grasp : 
Were vainest titles tickling vainest foals 
For other purport all more wisely borne ; 



LIFE. 87 

And general arbiters for peaceful close 

Of vexed disputes with sword-supplanting wands 

Wearing the honors of a peaceful sway : 

Were one-armed tyranny of central power 

And the Briarean scourge of multitude 

Innoxious for coercing to their views 

The independent character, the one 

Most sacred temple of the inner self, 

The consciousness whereon improvement leans. 

Were all the Empires, Powers that bubbling float 

Upon the noisome vats where human thews 

And brains lie rotting at the bottom, pricked, 

And the foul air 'scaped that bloats them : Oh ! 

were mind 
Unshackled ; were it, free from goad and sting 
Of want, let go to glean and gather through 
The fields of Thought ; were schoolmen sove- 
reigns, and 
Were sovereigns scholars, placable, athirst 
For knowledge of the power that gives, the while 
It nothing takes but thanks : were bards, like bees. 
Untiring through innumerable flights. 
Wing-laden with the honey Truth ; were these 
Winged messengers of Christ's democracy 
Hiving their sweets in the celled brain where clots 
The dull perse blood, made thick in passage 

through 
The veins of Ignorance, oppression cramped : 
Were the voiced earth on men's un-Babeled ears 



88 



Laying the one great Truth whose elements 

Escape insensible from every pore, — 

All things, with Beauty ministrant, are held 

In Love impact, and Love is in Thee, God,— 

Then would the dreamy World have roused itself, 

Like a loud Lion from his lazy lair ; 

His eyes ablaze with souls of Might and Right, 

Like suns new-lit would centre each for each 

And both for one (commingling rays of Truth), 

The Universe of Mind. Oh ! then would grow 

Into all-reigning power a mighty Thought, 

The soul of tangible realities Earth rends 

Its mighty heart to grasp. Freedom would then 

Aye animate the full embodied rights 

And liberties of men. Freedom ! throned high 

On Alleghany's crest ; o'er-alping Alps ; 

And stretching forth a rounded snowy arm 

Circling the seven hills in its embrace. 

Ay ! one arm holding high the starry flag 

In sight of men, the other folding all 

Earth's peoples to her fair and tideful breast 

For nourishment — would raise her silver tones 

Outringing clear the thought Rienzi raised. 

Telling the tale of Tell, and breathing far 

The spirit of undying Washington ! " 



/ 



LIFE. 89 



3L»Hnbot» 

And was it even as it seemed — a dream 1 
I know not if it were ; for very truth 
It is that oft there doth possess my soul 
A Hope, and never is it faint while still 
Its power is on me ; but, as when I gaze 
Upon the sun naught else but suns see I 
Filling the air, some bright and some of black, 
Then and for time thereafter ; so it is 
That this doth blind my vision to all else 
But two eye-filling suns of dark and light— 
The world as 't is, and as it may become. 
Ev'n as the dark sun of the present is real, 
May not the bright one of the future be 1 



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BY 



D. PARISH BAHHYDT. 



NEW YORK: 
WILLIAM HOLDREDGE 

1851. 



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